Edie Furniss (Monterey Institute of International Studies)
PROMOTING RUSSIAN LANGUAGE LEARNER AUTONOMY THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
One of the tasks of the language teacher is to foster autonomous learners who are able to navigate a multitude of information sources in order to find answers to their questions about the language and continue to immerse themselves in the target culture without a teacher there to guide them. When students are equipped with the ability and the skills to access information on their own, they are able to personalize newfound knowledge and independently define their role within the target language community, thus becoming autonomous language learners (Kumaravadivelu 2003).
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2009 AATSEEL Conference, December 27-30, 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania